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Sadness and regret that it happened, but most important to me, what i tried to do with my life now is be the leader that the people who believed in me before continue to believe in me and to conduct myself in a way that would cause them to believe that it s important to lead with responsibility. sean: general petraeus followed you. we know what happened with him. you obviously are friends with him. i am. sean: what are your thoughts? well, my thoughts are for dave and holly petraeus. i saw up close what dave did for the nation and for the missions we were in and what he did for me and i just want the two of them to be happy. sean: all right. i won t go further than that. i want to bring in your wife here, annie and he gets up at 3:30 a.m., sleeps five hours a night and one meal a day. yes. sean: and bring us back to the day when he told you he met with the president. when he came back in, i ....
In 2008. this happened in 2010. may i ask you did you vote for him in 2012. i m a private citizen and i ll keep that to myself. sean: you re going to keep to yourself on that one. all of a sudden your career ends, walk out of the office and president accepted your resignation. what are you thinking? who did you call? what s that like for you? several things. the first thing is, it s a short drive back to fort mcnair. i drive back to the fort mcnair, i d come in early that morning after flying all night. taken a shower, put on my uniform headed first to the pentagon and the white house and annie knew what the controversy was, but she had no idea what the likely outcome was. as i drove back, several things came into my mind. first, i had 150,000 soldiers counting on me many who had deployed simply because i d asked them. many individuals on the staff stop what you re doing, come on. my command major, my call was ....
sean: and you voted for him in 2008. this happened in 2010. may i ask you did you vote for him in 2012. i m a private citizen and i ll keep that to myself. sean: you re going to keep to yourself on that one. all of a sudden your career ends, walk out of the office and president accepted your resignation. what are you thinking? who did you call? what s that like for you? several things. the first thing is, it s a short drive back to fort mcnair. i drive back to the fort mcnair, i d come in early that morning after flying all night. taken a shower, put on my uniform headed first to the pentagon and the white house and annie knew what the controversy was, but she had no idea what the likely outcome was. as i drove back, several things came into my mind. first, i had 150,000 soldiers counting on me many who had deployed simply because i d asked them. many individuals on the staff stop what you re doing, come on. my command major, my call was ....
Of trust that operate as a single team because if we don t we re not going to be effective no matter what our policy. sean: all right, general, we re going to take a break and when we come back we ll talk about president obama and we ll hear the general s damaging rolling stone interview and why it ended his military career and his meeting with president obama next. from the moment i ve seen the article i knew there were different options how to act and react the storm i would face. i knew only one decision was right for the moment and for the mission. i didn t try to figure out what others might do, no heroes or mentor s example came to mind. i called no one for advice. it was light when we landed at andrews air force base and we drove to my quarters to shower, put on dress green uniforms before going to the pentagon to meet with admiral mullen and secretary gates. two hours later, i left the white house after a short and professional meeting with president obama. i drove to fort ....
Sadness and regret that it happened, but most important to me, what i tried to do with my life now is be the leader that the people who believed in me before continue to believe in me and to conduct myself in a way that would cause them to believe that it s important to lead with responsibility. sean: general petraeus followed you. we know what happened with him. you obviously are friends with him. i am. sean: what are your thoughts? well, my thoughts are for dave and holly petraeus. i saw up close what dave did for the nation and for the missions we were in and what he did for me and i just want the two of them to be happy. sean: all right. i won t go further than that. i want to bring in your wife here, annie and he gets up at , sleeps five hours a night and one meal a day. yes. sean: and bring us back to the day when he told you he met with the president. when he came back in, i ....